Cloth-measuring machine



Feb. 14, 192s'. 1,659,380

E. E. SPIEGEL CLOTH MEASURING MACHINE Filed Aug. 5, 1927 2 sheets-sheet 1 Feb. 14, 1928.

E. E. SPIEGEL CLOTH MEASURING MACHINE Filed Aug. 5, 1927 2 sheets-sheet 2 Snom/tto Edwraf/bf'egel S516 v72115 @Horne/1j Patented Feb. 14, 1928.

UNITED STATES EDWARD E. SlPIEG-EL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTH-MEASURNG MACHINE.

Application filed August 5, 1927. Serial No. 210,50).

This invention has reference to mechanism for measuringy fabrics in the web form, at the same time giving the opportunity to inspect the fabric as it passes between the supply roll and the winding` roll. n f

One of the objects of the invention is to provide mea-ns in such an apparatus to facilitate operation on a tubular fabric, such as is produced on a knitting machine or similar mechanism, and which includes means for keepingr the fabric properly spread in flat form of double thickness, as it is wound.

A further object is to provide improved means for causing; the length of the fabric to operate a register, as it passes to the winding-up roll, whereby the total length of the web will appear' on the register when it has been wound.

Another object of the invention is to provide improved means for controlling the machine, that is particularly designed to cause the web to pass over a suitable area for inspection by the operator, during the winding operation, so that any defects in the web can be readily discovered, and the operator can instantly arrest the winding mechanism, when such condition is discovered.

A further object ofthe invention isto provide means for operating on webs of different widths.

In the accompanying drawings showing one embodiment of my invention: f e

Fig. 1 is a front view of the machine.

Fig. 2 is a rear view.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation. i

Fig. 4 shows enlarged the details of the winding rolls and adjacent parts.

Fig. 5 shows the adjustable guides for the web.

Fig. 6 is another view of the rolls and spreader.

Fig.` 7 rately.

Fig. 8 is a detail of the power control.

As shown in the drawings, the machine is in the form of an open frame denoted generally by 9 that supports a kind of table 410. At the front of the machine is a supply roll 11, carried on uprights 12, 12, and readily detached therefrom, shown with a roll 13 of fabric wound thereon. The end of the fabric is passed upwardly around a guide roll 14e carried by posts 15, 16, suitably shows the spreader form sepamounted on the table, with a roll 1T at the top, around which the web is passed. A

guide roll 18 is mounted on uprights 19-19. on the table a short distance beyond the posts, around which the web 13 is `brought down, and passed forward to the feed and winding' rolls. The operator standing` at thefront end ofthemachine caninspeet the web as it passes upwardly from the supply roll, to and around theupper guide roll 17. The winding;` and feed rolls are at the rear of the table, mounted between upright posts 20 and 21. A pair of feed rolls 22 and 23 are shown one above the other carried by these twoposts, between which the web is passed, and the lower roll, or both of them are of a certain predetermined circumference, such as one half of a yard. These rolls are preferably coveredvwith fabric. `When the web is drawn between these rolls bv their rotation, for each revolution of the. lower roll a halfyard of the web is advanced, that is indicated by a suitable register mechanism, well known in this art. VA counter is` indicated at 24- that will show the revolutions of these rolls, being` connected with 'the lower roll 22 in such a manner that a large` number ofrotations will be indicated, and which, by the various disks, may also indi cate fractions of a revolution.

A friction winding' roll 25 is shown mounted tc rotate in the posts 2() and 21 at its ends, which latter have a vertical movement in the grooved inner wall 28 of each of these posts. This roll 25, or the web wound thereon, will be free to move downwardly to contact with the upper feed roll 2B. The web 13, after passing rearward from the guide roll 18, is. caused to travel between the two feed rolls 22 and 23, suitably driven in the proper directions as indicated by the arrows; and the end of the web, after passing,` between these rolls to the rear, is secured to the winding` roll by suitable means; lt will be understood that the rolls 22 and 23 being driven by suitable means, will by the engagement of the web and on the roll25, serve to turn this roll and wind up the web thereon, and as the diameter of this winding,l roll increases from the accumulation'of the layers of fabric thereon, the roll 17 itself will move upward in its slotted guide at the ends, in the posts. While the surface area of this winding roll' will increase with its thickness, relative to the rolls 22 and 23, the surface speed ofthe latter rolls will be constant, and the register will properly show the length of the web that passes between these rolls, and as accumulated on the winding;r roll 25.

Suitable means are. provided for driving these feed rolls. They are shown provided with meshing gears 27 and 28 respectively, on the shafts 29 and 30 of the rolls,` and the latter Shaft carries a` grooved pulley 31. This pulley is driven by a. belt 32, from pulley 371 on a shaft 33 carried by brackets 34 and 35, on a suitable cross frame 36, at the lower part of the frame. This shaft 33 is shown having a pulley 37 secured thereto, which may be driven by belt 38 from wide pulley 39, fast on a cross shaft 40. The latter carries a pulley 41 shown asdriven by a belt 42, from` pulley 43 on a suitable electric motor 44.` The latter may have a usual control box and lever 45 adjacent the front, whereby the operator can stop and start the motor. On the shaft 33 is a loose pulley 46 adjacent the tight pulley 37, so that the belt 38 can be suitably shifted from one pulley to the other, still engagingthe wide drivingr pulley 39, which will serve to engage and free the feed rolls. A shaft 4T on the base or floor carries an arm 4S. that engages a slide 49 which carries a belt engagingfork 50. The shaft 47 also carries a foot lever or pedal 51, that will rock this shaft when moved down, and swing the rod and belt shifter to move the belt from the tight pulley to the loose pulley that will cut olf the power from the feed rolls. This movement will compress a spring 52 adjacent the arm 48 that tends to retain the belt shifted onto the tight pulley. Then the pedal 50 is thus moved down, it will engage a detent 53 that will hold it depressed with the belt shifted to the loose pulley. It will be seen that when the datent is kicked off by the op erator, the spring' 52 will cause the belt shifter to move the belt. Means are further provided in connection with this foot control to act as aY brake and very quickly arrest the rotation of the feed rolls, so that the operator on discovering an imperfection in the web, or should it be desired to quickly stop the winding, the feed rolls are at once arrested. On the shaft 49 is placed a brake shoe 54, that when the pedal is depressed and the shaft 49 carries the belt shifter to move the belt to the loose pulley, will be brought into engagement with the side of the driving pulley 37, see Fig. 8. This will at once arrest the pulley 37 and stop the feed rolls. lll/Then the pedal is released and the spring again shifts the pulley, the brake arm will release the tight pulley.

Tn winding the tubular fabric, it is desirable or necessary to keep it properly spread out or distended because of the two thicknesses and the doubled edges. Means are provided for keeping the double weh properly spread out, shown in the form of a spreading frame, indicated separately in Fig. 7. Thismay comprise a rod or cylinder 55 with a small rod having' the end portions 56 and 57 secured to the cylinder to provide an opposite length 58 parallel to tht` cylinder This frame can he provided in `different lengths to accommodate the lennjth between the ends 56 and 5T. permitting the insertion of this frame with these ends in engagement with the two doubled edges. as indicated in Fig. 6, that will keep the fahric Spread out in proper forni for wndinfi'. This frame is inserted in the web rnd before it is passed between the feed rolls and 23, and it is mounted in this position, just beyond these feed rolls by a suitable support, such as a. cross plate 5.() suitably .supported as by a bracket 6 extending; across a short distance in front of the feed rolls 22 and 23. In operation the frame carried inside of the web, will have the end portions 56 and 57 of the frame and the web portions adjacent thereto on the lower side, resting,r upon this plate 59, with the cylinder portion 55 that is larger and projects beyond the end rod portions 55 and 57, rlverhairginul the front edge of this plate. .see Fin'. 'lhe feed rolls 22 and 23 being close together and separated in use by the small thickness of the double fabric, will notserve to draw the frame or the cylinder in between the rolls, butL will keep it in this position in which it serves to keep the tuludar fabric properly spread. It will be understood that this guide plate 59 will serve to accommodate different widths of `web up to the full width of the rolls 22 and 23, and corresprmdn ing sizes of the spreaders employed.

Means are further provided for guiding the web at its edges, so that it will wind up uniformly any length on the winding;` roll, and which guide means preferaljily engages the ends of the spreader so `that it cannot shift lengthwise and cause side movement of the web, and this means is preferably ad justable for different widths fabrics. and different spreader lengths.

As shown T provide a cross shaft' with screw threaded portions 6l and 62, having right and left hand threads thereon; which portions engage similarly threaded arms 63 and 64 that slide on a `guide rod 65. lhese arms carry guide portions or rolls 66 and 67 respectively, that are brought adjacent the ends of the spreader inside of the web. Turning the shaft by an arm (50. will move these arms, either both toward cach other, or in the opposite direction, at equal distances from the middle of the rolleT and thus the guides can be shifted to aeconnnm date the web where engaged by the spreader.

Tt will be obvious that the sante appara ne: can be used to rewind or transfer n fain-hthat is plain instead'` of tubular.` the spreader simply being;l omitted, and thv:

ltlll i el i) till fabric passed through the several parts of' the machine troni the supply'roll ll tothe Winding roll :25. .I

In the use of the machine, the supply roll i3 on the roll or shalt ll-is nieu? ted'on rlie posts l5 and the 'web is passed up over" the top roil li', then down aroundv the guide roll 18, and it a tubula' webpthe r'avieis iirferteil in this ein l, theL is then pas ed between the iced^ rolls i.. 23, the spreader resting on tr .supporting plate 59,"\vitli the larger cyliii er ol this traine o verhau ging this cross plate, adjacent the feed rolls.` The end or the passes 'betweenthese feed rolls and brougplit `up and secured l.to the vinding roll whereby the latter with wide portion Vthereon will rest on top ol the p The side guide rolls the i brought adjacent the `web Where encloses the spree-de i Y ster 2i is now set at f Y l Y oper-atei can suing the switch otor, and then the pedal 5l is arn'r 53, that will iter by its siliring to more tight pulley. r this will cuir-e e feed rolls and 23, and the 'n the Winding roll Q5` to Wind i iereon, that is drawn ronrthe lo, passing over the said guide operatorstanding at the 'ti-ont oit the machine will have a considerable area ot the fabric spread out before him, and in detect any imperfections in the saine. [it any time he can press down the pedal that will shift the belt and also apply the brake., that will at once arrest the feed rolls. llilhen the web becomes entirely Wound on the roll 25, the machine is stopped and the register at 241 will indicate the exact length et the Web that has been rewound on this roll 25. lVith plain fabrics the operation is the same but the spreader is not. used, and the guide rolls G6 and 67 are brought adjacent the edges of the web.

v. '1e manner.

lil/lli I claim is:

In a. device for uf'inding fabric Webs, a pair of upper and lower feed rolls arranged te draw the web between them by their relatively opposite rotations a Winding roll arranged to have the end of Web secured thereto and resting by its Weight on top of the upper roll to le turned thereby with guiding;` means to permit upward nioveinent as snch Winding roll becomes covered by the cloth.

Q. ln device tor` Winding fabric Webs, a pair oli up or and lower feed rolls ar ranged to d. in* the web between them by relatively opposite rotations, a Windinaroll arranged to have the end ot web` are adjusted by the arm 69 `to be.

this web will be indicated in theV ric Webs, 'feed rolls to draw the web, a

spreader device.comprising iiat traine that isplaced inside or' the tubular web adjacent the i'olls,and means arranged tosupport the said tiune in proximity t-o the said rolls to cause the cloth to pass around the traine and into the rollsin a properly spread condition.

4. In a device for 'grinding tubular fabric Webs, a vinding roll and iced rolls connected therewith to draw the web. a spreader device comprising a flat trainet-liat is placed inside ofthe tubular web adjacent the rolls, a cross plate adjacent the rolls arranged to support the said frame in proximity to the said rolls to permit the web to pass around the 'frame and into the rolls in a flat spread eoiulitionT4 5. In a device for Winding tubular tabric .webs iced rolls to draw the Web, a spreader device comprising a comparatively small cylinder With a rod smaller than the cylinder bent at theends and `secured to the cylinder to form therewith an oblong rectangle of a length at the two rod ends for insertion in the tubular Web for proper spreading of the web, and means to support the frame in proximity to the said rolls to permit the cloth to pass around the frame and into the rolls in a proper spread condition.

6. In a device for Winding tubular fabric Webs, feed rolls to draw the web, a spreader device comprising a comparatively small cylinder with a. rod smaller than the cylinder' bent at the ends and secured to the cylinder to form therewith an oblong rectangle of a length at the two rod ends for insertion in the tubular web for proper spreading of the Web, and means to support the frame in proximity to the said rolls to permit the cloth to pass around the traine and into the rolls in a proper spread condition, said frame resting by its rod ends on the cross plate With the cylinder overhanging the edge of the plate in proximity to the feed rolls.

7. In a device 'for winding tubular fabrie Webs, feed rolls to draw the Web, a spreader device comprising a flat trame that is placed inside of the tubular web adjacent the rolls, means arranged to support the said frame in proximity to the said rolls to cause the cloth to pass around the frame and into the rolls in a proper spread condition, upright guide rolls adjacent the ends of the frames With means for adjusting them together toward and Jfrom each other to accom- Ilo modate different lengths of frames for different fabric Widths.

8. In a device for Winding tubular fabric Webs, feed rolls to draw the web, a spreader device comprising a comparatively small cylinder with a rod smaller' than the cylinder bent at the ends and secured to the cylinder to form therewith an oblong rectangle, of a length at the two rod ends for insertion in the tubular web' for proper spreading of the web., a cross plate to support the frame in proximity to the said rolls to permit the cloth to pass around the frame and into the rolls in a proper spread condition, said frame resting by its rod ends on the cross plate with the cylinder overhanging the edge of the plate in proximity to the feed rolls, upright guide rolls adjacent the ends of the frame, with means for adjusting them together toward and from each upright guide rolls adjacent the ends of the frame, with means for adjusting them simultaneously toward and from each other to accommodate different lengths of frames for different fabric Widths.

10. In a device of the character set forth, the combination with the feed rolls, and a Winding roll, of a motor shaft with means for driving the shaft, and a device in the driving means arranged to connect and free the shaft, a foot lever on the base, and a brake connected with the foot lever, wherebythe device can be opened and the brake at once applied to arrest the Winding rolls.

11. In a device of the character set forth, the combination with the feed rolls and a Winding roll, of a motor shaft arranged to drive the shaft and a Wide pulley, a shaft Vcarrying a fast and a loose pulley a belt connecting saidlatter pulleys with said side pulley to be shifted onto either pulley means for driving the feed rolls from said fast pulley, a foot lever a spring shaft a belt and the fast pulley on the rolls, said foot lever when depressed serving to compress the spring and to shift the belt to the loose pulley, and a detent arranged to hold the foot lever depressed with the belt on the loose pulley.

Signed at New York, N. Y., on July 30,

EDWARD E. SPIEGEL. 

